..This finding raises the possibility that training body image or tactile acuity may help patients in chronic spinal pain, as it has been shown to do in patients with complex regional pain syndrome or phantom limb pain...

Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part caused by the illusory ownership of an artificial counterpart

..Chronic painful disease is associated with pain on movement, which is presumed to be caused by noxious stimulation. We investigated whether motor imagery, in the absence of movement, increases symptoms in patients with chronic arm pain...

..These gains were maintained at three-month follow-up. We conclude that tactile stimulation can decrease pain and increase tactile acuity when patients are required to discriminate between the type and location of tactile stimuli...

The effect of tactile discrimination training is enhanced when patients watch the reflected image of their unaffected limb during training

..We aimed to determine the symptomatic effect of incongruent proprioceptive input, imparted by vibration of the wrist tendons, which evokes the illusion of perpetual wrist flexion and disrupts cortical proprioceptive representation...

Space-based, but not arm-based, shift in tactile processing in complex regional pain syndrome and its relationship to cooling of the affected limb

G Lorimer MoseleyPaiN Group and Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UKBrain 132:3142-51. 2009

..This pattern is consistent with data from those with hemispatial neglect after stroke and raises the possibility that chronic CRPS involves a type of spatial neglect...

..Although the response was variable, pain produced differential changes in the motor control of the trunk muscles, with consistent impairment of TrA activity...

Widespread brain activity during an abdominal task markedly reduced after pain physiology education: fMRI evaluation of a single patient with chronic low back pain

G Lorimer MoseleyDepartment of Physiotherapy, Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital and The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaAust J Physiother 51:49-52. 2005

..The data offer a possible mechanism for difficulty in acquisition of trunk muscle training in people with pain and suggest that the change in activity associated with education may reflect reduced threat value of the task...

Are the changes in postural control associated with low back pain caused by pain interference?

..The predictability of a painful stimulus may have a differential effect on central nervous system performance within individuals, but anxiety about the impending pain appears to be important in determining this effect...

Evidence for a direct relationship between cognitive and physical change during an education intervention in people with chronic low back pain

G Lorimer MoseleyDepartments of Physiotherapy, Royal Brisbane Hospital and The University of Queensland, Herston, 4029, AustraliaEur J Pain 8:39-45. 2004

..Unhelpful pain cognitions of patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) may limit physical performance and undermine physical assessment. It is not known whether a direct relationship exists between pain cognitions and physical performance...

The lumbar multifidus: does the evidence support clinical beliefs?

David A MacdonaldDivision of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, AustraliaMan Ther 11:254-63. 2006

..These findings have implications for clinical practice...

Pain, mind, and movement: an expanded, updated, and integrated conceptualization

Why do people with complex regional pain syndrome take longer to recognize their affected hand?

G Lorimer MoseleyDepartment of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, and Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital, Brisbane, AustraliaNeurology 62:2182-6. 2004

..The author explored two aspects of this phenomenon: whether the duration of symptoms relates to the extent of the delay and whether guarding-type mechanisms are involved...

Impaired trunk muscle function in sub-acute neck pain: etiologic in the subsequent development of low back pain?

G Lorimer MoseleyDivision of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, AustraliaMan Ther 9:157-63. 2004

..ADIT performance was the main predictor of development of LBP in patients. The results suggest that reduced voluntary trunk muscle control in neck pain patients is associated with an increased risk of developing LBP...

Is successful rehabilitation of complex regional pain syndrome due to sustained attention to the affected limb? A randomised clinical trial

..The effect of the MIP seems to be dependent on the order of components, which suggests that it is not due to sustained attention to the affected limb, but is consistent with sequential activation of cortical motor networks...

The effect of motor control exercise versus placebo in patients with chronic low back pain [ACTRN012605000262606]